meatball-rocket posts

We here at Big Download love indie games. From telling you about them, playing them, or offering downloads for them, we are all about helping lesser-known developers get their name out into the world. Each week on Saturday, we'll give you the Indie Wrap-up, a collection of all the indie news stories and features during the previous week.

There were no major independent releases this week, with most of the week's news concerning more freeware than independent. There have been an explosion of new releases, however, thanks to the Procedural Generation Competition being held over on TIGSource. Stay tuned for more news concerning the excellent output from the competition!

Features and Downloads

	Freeware Friday: Torus Trooper Our resident indie fan James Murff takes a look at one of freeware's best shoot-'em-ups, even if he gets disoriented by all the twisting.
	Armageddon Empires demo available for download The incomparable Armageddon Empires now has a demo available for download through the Big Download service!
	MODvelous Monday: 6/2/2008 David Craddock takes his weekly look at mods to the excellent single-player Half-life mod They Hunger.

There's weird, and then there's Meatball Rocket. A side-scrolling puzzler/shooter, you control a yellow floating cat with disembodied arms that grabs crates and other objects on a quest to... well, we don't really know. We're sure it's important though.

The game plays much like a horizontal shooter, but instead of shooting, you are grabbing things from the environment to fling at your enemies. 100 coins nets you a life, and you can get coins through various means, the easiest of which being killing enemies to fill your combo meter. The game is about 10 mb, and while it's not exactly the prettiest game (the sprites don't match in a lot of places), it's still a blast.

[Via IndieGames]